Woah! The nocturnal delights keep on coming. So excited after our last night muck dive Heidi and I decided to try it again. We saw octopus out on the hunt, its cute cousin, the bobtail squid trying to eat a shrimp almost as big as it was. Then it was a nudibranch bonanza after that with sightings of imperial nudibranch, trembling, white bump, white margin, kangaroo, gloomy, black dendrodoris, snow goddess, lilac spotted, orange gumdrop, tiled pleurobranch, and a couple of rare nudibranch spottings like the
Carminodoris bifurcata, Aldisa pikokai, and the
Tambja amakusana. These last three don't have common names since they are seen so rarely.
This bobtail squid was about the same size as my thumb. The shrimp he is trying to chomp down was slightly smaller than my pinky. They both held this pose for awhile until the squid finally spit out the empty shell of the shrimp. Shortly after the squid buried itself into the sand, leaving only its eyes above to relax and digest its hardy meal.
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| Carminodoris bifurcata |
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| Aldisa pikokai |
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| Hypselodoris imperialis (Imperial nudibranch) |
It still amazes me that we can go back to the same place on the same reef on a different night and see totally different creatures. Many of the rarer nudibranchs we will see once and never again. It makes you wonder how much is hiding just out of sight.
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| Kangaroo Nudi (Ceratosoma tenue) |
If you want to check out some of my other night dives then check out these links or just search for 'night dive' in the search bar.
Night Muck Dive
Night Flatworm Dive at Makena Landing
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| Trembling Nudibranch (Goniobranchus vibrata) |
Manta Ray Night Dive
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| I really liked the color of this scorpionfish's eye |
Woah! The nocturnal delights keep on coming. So excited after our last night muck dive Heidi and I decided to try it again. We saw octopus out on the hunt, its cute cousin, the bobtail squid trying to eat a shrimp almost as big as it was. Then it was a nudibranch bonanza after that with sightings of imperial nudibranch, trembling, white bump, white margin, kangaroo, gloomy, black dendrodoris, snow goddess, lilac spotted, orange gumdrop, tiled pleurobranch, and a couple of rare nudibranch spottings like the Carminodoris bifurcata, Aldisa pikokai, and the Tambja amakusana. These last three don't have common names since they are seen so rarely.
This bobtail squid was about the same size as my thumb. The shrimp he is trying to chomp down was slightly smaller than my pinky. They both held this pose for awhile until the squid finally spit out the empty shell of the shrimp. Shortly after the squid buried itself into the sand, leaving only its eyes above to relax and digest its hardy meal.
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